Show Notes
Dr Shannon Mulder is a senior registrar in emergency medicine who began her career in South Africa, before transitioning to a career providing care on cruise ships. Her career has taken her to almost every continent in the world. Shannon now calls Australia home, and works as a retrievalist for the Central Australian Retrieval Service (CARS) in the Northern Territory.
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